This helm chart will be supplied by the Platform and will among other things define:

• Containers

  • How to deploy a container to the Kubernetes environment

  • How to monitor if the container is ready to receive requests and if it is still alive

  • Which ports to send requests to

  • How much resources the container is expected to use, and how much it is allowed to use in total

• Service Discovery

  • Which

    dns

    DNS name to reach the application on (internally on the cluster)

  • Which version of the application to send requests to

• Ingress

  • Which

    dns

    DNS name and path to reach the application

    on

    from the internet (if any)

  • Which port to receive requests on

  • Rewrite paths if needed

Configuration

The chart can be configured with a values file in yaml format. This file can be used to override the default configuration from the chart or to enable/disable feature features in the chart.

The values in the values file , is are dependent on the chart. But an example could be the following:

image: "my-new-service"
imageTag: "v1.0.2"
component: "my-new-service"
appVersion: "1.0.0"

containerPort: 80

ingress:
  hostname: myservice.$ENV_BASEURL

livenessProbe:
  httpPath: "/"

readinessProbe:
  httpPath: "/"

See also